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Optically pumped 1.3 μm room-temperature InAs quantum-dot micro-disk lasers directly grown on (001) silicon

Wan, Yating, Li, Qiang ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5257-7704, Liu, Alan Y., Gossard, Arthur C., Bowers, John E., Hu, Evelyn L. and Lau, Kei May 2016. Optically pumped 1.3 μm room-temperature InAs quantum-dot micro-disk lasers directly grown on (001) silicon. Optics Letters 41 (7) , pp. 1664-1667. 10.1364/OL.41.001664

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Abstract

Direct integration of high-performance laser diodes on silicon will dramatically transform the world of photonics, expediting the progress toward low-cost and compact photonic integrated circuits (PICs) on the mainstream silicon platform. Here, we report, to the best of our knowledge, the first 1.3 μm room-temperature continuous-wave InAs quantum-dot micro-disk lasers epitaxially grown on industrial-compatible Si (001) substrates without offcut. The lasing threshold is as low as hundreds of microwatts, similar to the thresholds of identical lasers grown on a GaAs substrate. The heteroepitaxial structure employed here does not require the use of an absorptive germanium buffer and/or dislocation filter layers, both of which impede the efficient coupling of light from the laser active regions to silicon waveguides. This allows for full compatibility with the extensive silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. The large-area virtual GaAs (on Si) substrates can be directly adopted in various mature in-plane laser configurations, both optically and electrically. Thus, this demonstration represents a major advancement toward the commercial success of fully integrated silicon photonics.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Physics and Astronomy
Publisher: Optical Society of America
ISSN: 0146-9592
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 4 April 2018
Date of Acceptance: 9 March 2016
Last Modified: 07 Nov 2023 02:08
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/110474

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